The growing regional divide between the Northern and Southern United states simply rested on their position with regard to slavery.
The North was evolving positively on the practice of slavery while the south felt unprepared and unwilling to accept the change due to economic and political reasons.
<h3>How was slavery posited as defending versus subverting white liberty/equality? </h3>
Using the concept or notion of Negative Liberty, some proponents of this idea suggested that slaves becoming free would constitute a hindrance to their own freedom and that it would result in the subject of equality between the blacks and the white.
The author of this quote is Muhammad Ali, American Athlete (boxer) born in 1942, who was a convert to Islam, and was a religious freedom advocate (among others).
